Tourism and Sustainable Travel Quiz

Tourism is the practice of traveling for pleasure.

• Vero

• Falso

Who is a tourist?

• Someone who travels at least once a year

• Someone who travels and spends 24 hours or more out

• Someone who likes to travel

• Someone who uses a public transport to leave the country

Today's tourist wants to travel for:

• nature, leisure activities and culture

• sun, sea and sand

• nature and culture

• leisure activities and culture

A European uses 14x more energy than someone living

• Brazil

• China

• India

• Egypt

The tourism economy represents __ % of global GDP (= Italian PIL).

• 5

• 15

• 16

• 19

Money earned from tourism is used to pay for some services needed in a country

• Vero

• Falso

Tourism is causing many problems such as overcrowding, damage to sites and what else?

• Pollution

• Over development and erosion of local culture

• Threat to wildlife

• The three above

Socio-cultural benefits of sustainable tourism do NOT include

• strengthening of communities

• strengthening of local culture and traditions

• better understanding between peoples and cultures

• higher mobility of the local labour market

Stimulating and contributing to sustainable consumption in the tourism sector is a task:

• for environment protection organizations

• for tourism service providers and transport companies

• for local and national governmental organizations

• the three above

Sustainable tourism does NOT aim primarily at:

• the integration of local people in tourist operation

• profit for big tour operators

• strong commitment to nature conservation

• social responsibility